What is the meaning of opacity?

noun

  • The phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation.
  • Incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning.
  • The quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light.
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